My forthcoming novel, Grist Mill Road, was recently mentioned in a New York Times article about books and Instagram, resulting from the fact that Krysten Ritter shared a picture of my novel on Instagram here. You can check out the New York Times article here.

The highly anticipated new novel from the author whose debut was called “The smart summer thriller you’ve been waiting for…The novel you should be reading tonight” (NPR’s All Things Considered) and was named a Book of the Year by NPR and an Entertainment Weekly Must-List Pick

Christopher J. Yates’s cult hit Black Chalk introduced that rare writerly talent: a literary writer who could write a plot with the intricacy of a brilliant mental puzzle, and with characters so absorbing that readers are immediately gripped. Yates’s new book does not disappoint.Grist Mill Road is a dark, twisted, and expertly plotted Rashomon-style tale. The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends―Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah―are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again―with even more devastating results.

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http://www.christopherjyates.com/book-signing-bea/#commentsSat, 08 Apr 2017 14:49:35 +0000http://www.christopherjyates.com/?p=1332I’ll be signing books on June 1 at BEA (BookExpo America), from 11a.m. Please come along and make me feel slightly less ignored. The venue this year is Javits Center, NYC.
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http://www.christopherjyates.com/from-russia-with-lag/#commentsFri, 17 Jun 2016 18:55:52 +0000http://www.christopherjyates.com/?p=1329In early February 2012, I’d been trying (and failing) for years to write something worthy of publication. It was just one day before my 40th birthday, a milepost I had already decided would mark the end of my unsuccessful writing career. I had no idea what I was going to do instead, which was an utterly terrifying feeling. And then, out of the blue ether, came an offer from Russia to publish Black Chalk, which was a shock for two reasons: firstly, no one up to that point had wanted to publish the novel in English; and secondly, my agency hadn’t sent anything to Russia. It’s still something of a unknown how this happened.

Anyway, long story short, nearly four-and-a-half years later this finally arrived in the post and has been received with much gratitude as a token of the day when my writing career was mysteriously saved at the very last minute.